Mission Trek

Stop at Nothing

Three Angels Broadcasting Network

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Series Code: MTK

Program Code: MTK000006A


00:00 (bright upbeat music)
00:05 - [Mary] We've caught up in the church
00:06 and I've always been somewhat involved in outreach.
00:10 But how can we get involved in missions overseas?
00:13 My name is Mary.
00:15 - [Lillian] And I'm Lillian.
00:16 We wanted to find out.
00:18 Join us on our journey
00:20 (bhang)
00:21 to discover the culture, the lifestyle,
00:25 the need, and the mission into
00:28 a Southeast Asia's least reach countries.
00:31 - [Mary] Welcome to Mission Trek.
00:38 - Welcome to Mission track.
00:39 - In the last episode,
00:41 we visited a school on the border of Burma.
00:43 While we were there,
00:45 we were able to go to a local village with a dentist
00:47 and watch him help the villagers.
00:48 - Now we will be traveling to Gail Haberkam's Clinic
00:52 in the mountains where she ministers to the current people.
00:55 Thankfully, Mary Ann was feeling a lot better
00:57 and she was able to travel with us.
01:00 - Gayle's a nurse who lives in the mountains of Thailand
01:02 at a village that takes five hours to get to by truck.
01:05 And we had the privilege of visiting her.
01:11 - So we're on our way up to Auntie Gayle's place,
01:13 we're gonna be there for a few days
01:15 and really exciting we're riding in this truck all of us.
01:20 So really warm outside
01:24 and we get all squished.
01:27 This is Auntie Gayle's truck.
01:29 We were wondering why such a small sweet lady
01:32 would need such a big tough truck.
01:34 But we soon found out, the road to her house is rough
01:38 and steep and it's much steeper in real life
01:41 than it looks in the video.
01:43 Basically, we are riding back track,
01:47 we've had a lot of steep corners and stuff.
01:51 Yeah, for these little things,
01:53 this so dusty.
01:56 It's like you pass these trucks
01:59 and you're like this far away from haven,
02:02 so that is not good.
02:04 (gentle music)
02:16 These roads are rough from the dry season.
02:18 But in the rainy season,
02:20 all the dust and dirt turns into deep, slippery mud.
02:23 (gentle music)
02:28 When the truck won't make it, they take a motorbike.
02:30 But even that can be a lot of hard work.
02:33 (gentle piano music)
02:39 Auntie Gayle and BletJhw,
02:40 tell us about how the Lord protected them
02:42 during rainy season.
02:43 (gentle piano music)
02:46 They were driving down this very corner
02:48 when they found that it was covered in slick mud.
02:52 - [BletJhw] Lilyann doesn't look very steep in the camera,
02:54 how does it feel in real life?
02:55 - It's like this.
02:58 - [Auntie Gayile] And the mud had washed all down the road
03:00 as we turn this corner,
03:02 there was no other way but the truck just slid
03:05 out of control sideways right towards that precipice.
03:09 - [Lilyann] This is where they ended up,
03:11 right at the edge of a steep cliff.
03:13 - Here we go out of control here.
03:15 Sideways.
03:18 It's all loose right here.
03:21 It was all loose.
03:23 And our back wheel was just right here on the edge.
03:27 - [Lilyann] Auntie Gayle had the courage to take pictures,
03:29 even though she was in a very stressful situation.
03:33 - You can imagine, once you've lost traction
03:36 and your truck is out of control,
03:38 how fast you've come around that corner.
03:40 It's only the Angel of the Lord that stopped us.
03:43 Because here we go around and what did you say?
03:46 - Lord, help, help, help.
03:48 - Like Peter, Lord, help, help help.
03:52 And everybody was quiet because we thought
03:54 soon we'd be going down over this way off the cliff.
03:58 And then it just suddenly stopped right there
04:01 before going over the side.
04:04 Stop for no reason.
04:05 (motorbike engine roaring)
04:07 - Did you feel like if you moved
04:08 it might start moving again? - Yeah.
04:11 And then we got out of the track to to survey our situation.
04:15 And you just wanna fall down,
04:16 you can't keep your shoes on, was so slick.
04:19 You can't even hardly stand up,
04:21 we just struggled in the rain and the mud everywhere.
04:25 And finally,
04:28 we got out praise the Lord,
04:30 miracle after miracle on these roads.
04:34 - We continue driving for another few hours.
04:36 MaryAnne was stuck in the cab
04:38 because she was still recovering from her bad cold.
04:41 It's amazing to think how much time on to Gayle
04:43 and BletJhw spend on these roads.
04:46 She is often taking sick people
04:47 into the hospital to get treatment.
04:49 Sometimes they leave in the morning
04:51 and don't get home until late at night.
04:53 Other times there is a mudslide or road construction,
04:56 and they have to turn around halfway to the hospital
04:58 and try different routes.
05:00 As the sun falls behind the hills,
05:02 we pull into her driveway.
05:04 We're here at Auntie Gayle's
05:06 and it was about four and a half hour ride
05:09 and back the truck, very bumpy, very dusty,
05:12 everything got really dusty.
05:14 Anyway, so we're here and it's really, really nice building.
05:18 We're working on making supper.
05:20 As soon as we got here,
05:21 there's two who are waiting to be seen
05:24 and then another guy came in
05:25 and there's like a family out there waiting.
05:28 So he's been gone all day
05:29 so people have been waiting to see her.
05:30 So she's really busy right now.
05:34 This man had cut his toe with a machete
05:37 and BletJhw washed the wound
05:38 and then auntie Gayle put some stitches in.
05:46 This little boy had been rushed to the hospital last month
05:49 for an appendicitis and he's come back for a checkup.
05:53 After all the pain he experienced and his brush with death,
05:56 he's all happy now.
06:01 - I have a good job.
06:05 - Early the next morning, we piled in the truck again
06:08 and headed out to a village.
06:10 On the way we stopped at the one place in the whole area
06:13 where she can get cell phone service.
06:15 And I had some questions for her.
06:17 What village are we going to today?
06:19 - Today we're going to go to the Nyalagory,
06:21 It is a village maybe 35 homes.
06:25 And I call it the village of children.
06:27 Because there's least 30 children in this village.
06:31 There's a small school it goes through grade four,
06:34 but the teachers really don't teach them much
06:36 and sometimes they're in school, sometimes they're not in,
06:38 so it's kind of free.
06:40 I hope today that the children are free
06:42 because I dearly love the children.
06:45 And I want to help them in their life
06:47 because many of the children,
06:48 their parents pay no attention to them.
06:51 They grow up going from home to home trying to find food.
06:55 Their parents are running around trying to find jobs
06:58 so they can earn some money so they can buy opium,
07:00 and then they're so addicted to opiums.
07:02 Many Nyalelogory is also the village of opium.
07:06 Many of them may mine that becomes heroin then.
07:09 And then they're incapable
07:11 they can't take care of their homes,
07:12 they can't take care of their gardens
07:14 and their children especially.
07:16 And so maybe the grandmother raises them, there's two twins,
07:18 you'll see today, I hope.
07:20 And the mother, the grandmother raises them,
07:22 their parents are always gone.
07:24 And sometimes I'll go in there
07:26 and I'll see her with a big bamboo pipe
07:29 and she put the opium in there and smoke, they smoke opium.
07:33 So it's really sad.
07:35 - Whether they use you before you came,
07:36 and then could get really sick?
07:38 - Well, some people own motorbikes,
07:39 and they can go to the nearest clinic,
07:41 which is two hours away.
07:42 But many of them are just at home and died.
07:46 And one lady a long time ago that we treated
07:49 while we were doing the hot foot bath and taking care of her
07:52 she was like amazed and she says,
07:54 "You're doing something to make me well?
07:56 "I feel better already."
07:58 And she says, "We just when we get sick,
08:00 "we just stayed home and we just wait to die.
08:02 "We're just gonna die."
08:03 So that's just what our lot they kind of call it,
08:08 it's my Lord.
08:09 - Oh wow!
08:10 (gentle music)
08:15 We're on our way now to a village this morning,
08:17 we're she's gonna do some medical things
08:20 and have a worship and stuff with the children
08:22 in the village and Marry Ann is feeling a lot better
08:25 this morning, she says but,
08:28 she didn't want to push herself.
08:30 She stayed back at the clinic is gonna have to
08:34 endure another bumpy ride there and back.
08:39 But it should be good.
08:42 These mountains are filled with little villages
08:44 that don't have access to health care or the Gospel.
08:48 Gayle can get to a few.
08:49 But dreams one day of many clinics and missionaries
08:53 ministering to villages like this one.
08:55 The house that we're going to today
08:57 is at the top of the hill.
09:00 I'm a little nervous right now.
09:03 I feel like I'm walking into a missionary storybook
09:05 with an open fire for cooking, bamboo walls,
09:08 dirty wood floors, lots of people and a sick little baby.
09:13 - This baby is just a little over two months old.
09:16 And at first she was too sick,
09:18 the mother couldn't to take care of it
09:19 because this is the lady that's had eight babies.
09:22 And so every time she gets very deathly sick one time,
09:26 we barely saved her life and took her to the hospital.
09:28 This time, she was sick again very badly
09:33 so she couldn't nurse her baby, we brought her formula.
09:36 And a baby bottle that was great because this grandma
09:39 had been trying to feed the baby by chewing the rice
09:42 and spitting it out and giving it to the baby.
09:45 And that's what kept it alive at first
09:47 until we got the formula here.
09:49 And then it did really well.
09:51 Now it seems like she's got some milk
09:53 so but the babies are all sick,
09:54 it's got diarrhea, and symbolized in the diarrhea,
09:57 a fever, intermittently, and congestion, runny nose,
10:03 and that kind of stuff.
10:04 So we're going to take care of the baby,
10:07 here's some medicine.
10:09 Make sure they have what they need.
10:14 - She begins to visit
10:15 by caring for the sick and the hurting.
10:18 - He has fever a few days ago and then the last two days,
10:22 seemed like he was getting better,
10:23 but just today it started to have a fever again.
10:27 - She provides this service and medicine free of charge,
10:30 which shows the people that she really cares about them,
10:33 that opens their hearts be willing to listen
10:35 to her talk about God and share stories from the Bible.
10:40 - We give it Vitamin B12 and the vitamin B complex shots
10:43 to these people, their back pain is better
10:46 and their knee pain is better.
10:49 Everything seems to go better.
10:50 They really think the shots are valuable.
10:54 So if we don't have them
10:57 it's really sad.
11:00 And really, it does do a lot of good because mostly
11:02 their body isn't in absorbing the vitamins well.
11:06 And so that can cause
11:09 problems, especially if they get numb or tingling or achy
11:14 and arms or legs, lower legs
11:17 can usually be a vitamin deficiency.
11:21 We give so many shots, so many.
11:25 - So that's just a vitamin B12 shots?
11:27 - Ahaa!
11:28 This one is the B12.
11:31 (gentle music)
11:43 - After she gave her shots, we always break the needle.
11:48 Because a lot of people sometimes they came
11:50 and they ask for the needle
11:52 because he wants to use for the opium to put in their veins.
11:56 So we always break the needle.
11:59 - [Man] Can you tell who in this house is on opium?
12:02 - I'm sure that the lady that own this house,
12:07 she used opium, and other people.
12:11 - [Man] The boy sitting in the doorway with blue is he?
12:14 - I'm not sure about him.
12:16 But most, almost all they use once a while or many times.
12:22 Some are really addicted, some are not very.
12:24 Probably safe to say at least 80% of people are using opium.
12:29 (gentle music)
12:30 (foreign language)
12:39 - Is he swollen at all?
12:41 (gentle music)
12:44 - Not really a lot of people have come but those have come
12:48 she's treated them and it's just cool to watch her
12:52 check on them and stuff.
12:54 And tonight we're gonna have worship,
12:55 and a lot of kids have come, a few kids have come, so yeah.
13:01 (singing in foreign language)
13:32 - Today I wanna talk about the Bible.
13:36 It's talking about the man that wrote this book.
13:38 And it says that the Lord put Words in his mouth.
13:42 (foreign language)
13:47 And do you see Philip here has something he's reading,
13:49 this is the Bible.
13:51 (foreign language)
13:57 It's here, it's here. (foreign language)
13:58 He obeyed and make changes is life to be like Jesus.
14:03 And so I'm going to tell you, it's so important to pray
14:07 because even more important than the breath that we can take
14:11 is to pray and talk to God.
14:14 (foreign language)
14:19 It's a great work that I have here.
14:21 The Lord knows just where to put you,
14:23 to suit your personality and your strength
14:26 and your capabilities
14:27 and whatever capabilities you don't have,
14:29 because you never feel adequate.
14:31 The Lord will give you what you need.
14:34 And you know, I'm the most fortunate person in the world
14:38 because I have the very best job of anybody.
14:41 Because I get to meet people and help them physically
14:44 and that makes it reach to their heart
14:47 so I can help them understand more about God.
14:50 And I get to tell people about God every day,
14:53 some that never heard before.
14:55 So this is the biggest joy you can ever have
14:59 this side of heaven.
15:01 (gentle piano music)
15:13 - We're here in Las Utah for worship this evening.
15:16 And we're at Dupei's house.
15:20 He and his wife were the first people
15:21 that had been baptized.
15:22 So we're gonna have worship here and get to meet them
15:26 because we've heard their story, and so that's cool.
15:30 (foreign language)
15:33 This is Dupei, the story goes that he was addicted to opium
15:37 so bad that he tried to kill himself.
15:39 Gayle helped to save his life and now he and his wife
15:42 are the first ones to have been baptized
15:43 as a result of Auntie Gayle's ministry.
15:46 (singing in foreign language)
15:56 - So then Rahab let those men down on that cord.
15:58 outside the city and then ran into the jungle.
16:02 (foreign language)
16:06 (singing in foreign language)
16:12 (foreign language)
16:16 - Auntie Gayle is practicing her language skills with Dupei.
16:19 (foreign language)
16:31 - Well, it's good for me just to talk and figure out
16:33 if they understand and try the new words out.
16:38 And I get to talk to many people.
16:40 Sometimes BletJhw is gone.
16:42 He has to be gone, and I just stay here.
16:46 And then sometimes many patient one day 33 patients,
16:52 all by myself.
16:53 And I know as soon as BletJhw comes,
16:56 the difficult patient comes where I need a big history.
16:59 And I don't know how to ask ask that why he's gone,
17:02 every patient I can...
17:03 I know I've done it right, you know.
17:05 So that's God because you know,
17:07 I'm very slow on this language.
17:10 It's a struggle for me, I keep on trying
17:12 and don't give up and...
17:15 - Sitting in the back of the truck for five hours
17:17 was so tiring.
17:19 It was such a bumpy ride and it was hot and sunny.
17:22 And all of us and our stuff got all covered with dust.
17:25 It sounds really uncomfortable.
17:27 - Yeah.
17:28 - I had to ride in the truck because I was sick.
17:29 But you guys look kind of miserable right there.
17:32 - Yeah.
17:33 - It's hard to imagine
17:34 how much of Gayle's life is traveling.
17:36 Like, it's good that she has a truck at least.
17:39 - Yeah.
17:40 - And the hills are so steep.
17:41 - I can't imagine in rainy season traveling like--
17:45 - Yeah, in rainy season, she has to go and buy motorbike
17:47 or she has the hiking, which takes about 12 hours.
17:50 Or sometimes she can even get in there.
17:52 - Wow.
17:53 - But thankfully, the next day
17:55 I was well enough to go with you guys to the next village.
17:58 - Yes, that was such a fun experience,
18:00 been in the village and seen her help the people
18:02 was so inspiring.
18:03 Like she's dedicated her whole life to this.
18:05 - Yeah and she's like the happiest person.
18:07 - I know, she's so much fun, yes (laughing).
18:11 The second day, after breakfast,
18:13 we headed out in the truck for a 20 minute drive.
18:17 (gentle piano music)
18:19 This morning, the air is actually cool.
18:22 So we had to wear sweaters.
18:23 We didn't expect it to be cold in Thailand,
18:26 but we're pretty high in the mountains.
18:28 We didn't have to drive as much as yesterday.
18:30 But even a short drive is an adventure here.
18:33 Auntie Gayle doesn't just sit at home,
18:35 waiting for the people to come to her.
18:37 She goes out looking for them,
18:39 bringing light and healing into their homes.
18:41 We arrived in the village and went straight to the house
18:44 where Auntie Gayle always goes.
18:46 It's a very different way of life than we're used to,
18:48 but the lady of the house welcomed us with a smile.
18:51 - We're in LA Glah village.
18:54 And Anuntie Gayle or as they call her, Tharamu,
18:58 comes here every Thursday,
19:00 usually to treat the sick and have worship with the people.
19:05 So we came with her.
19:08 Like what they did yesterday.
19:11 - [Man] How was the ride?
19:12 - It was so fun!
19:14 It was epic. - Epic.
19:16 (laughing)
19:17 - We stood in the back.
19:19 - We were truck surfing holding on to the roof.
19:22 - They've been doing it
19:23 like the whole time they've been riding
19:25 but that was the first time I got
19:26 to stand in the back. - It's the best way
19:27 to ride in the back,
19:28 because usually you just bump,
19:30 And so we found out that if you stand up its
19:32 a lot easier. - Your knees take all of it.
19:34 - Yeah. - Instead of your back.
19:37 - The first thing we did was just hang out
19:39 and wait for the people to show up.
19:41 Life is not in a hurry here
19:43 and people take time to connect with each other.
19:46 Then Gayle and BletJhw treat all the people's ailments.
19:50 (foreign language)
19:57 - She wants shots.
19:59 Knee pain, lower back pain, side pain.
20:03 (foreign language)
20:06 - Gayle takes this opportunity
20:08 to teach my little sister some nursing techniques.
20:11 - Go slow, we just keep that cap on kinda sideways
20:14 and drop it down.
20:15 Wow, that's good, you wanna come with me?
20:17 I'll teach you how to give it but I'll give it.
20:21 - [Lilyann] After that is finished,
20:23 she begins telling a Bible story.
20:26 - Because he loved every person so very much,
20:29 he gave everything to the people
20:31 that would help be well and be happy.
20:35 - After a few hours, we headed home.
20:37 We were sad to leave,
20:38 but we still had a few questions to ask Auntie Gayle.
20:44 (gentle piano music)
20:48 We're here to talk with Auntie Gayle and BletJhw.
20:52 And we're just curious
20:53 about what life is like for them here.
20:55 - How did you guys come to work here and BeYoTa?
20:57 - It's a long story.
21:00 First of all, my boys and I came here
21:02 to be missionaries at the border
21:05 for three months.
21:07 And so when that three months was up,
21:09 we'd fallen in love with the Korean people,
21:11 my boys and I want to stay.
21:13 So we stayed at that school
21:14 and didn't go back to America for 10 months.
21:17 And at the end of 10 months,
21:18 there was so many missionaries at that school,
21:21 we felt like God wanted us to go somewhere else,
21:24 where there people really needed to find the Lord.
21:28 And so we prayed a lot about it.
21:31 And actually BletJhw and my son found this village for us,
21:37 and come back and thought it was really great place.
21:40 And we really prayed about it.
21:41 I came too and but we didn't know
21:44 that then three things happen, as we were praying
21:48 that showed is clearly God want us to come here.
21:52 And that is one thing is,
21:54 somebody donated us enough money to buy track.
21:57 And when we found the four wheel track, simply in one day,
22:01 actually in two hours,
22:03 people sometimes take months, they can't find one,
22:06 and it was the exact money that we've been donated.
22:08 - Oh, wow!
22:09 - So all this is the hand of God, you know.
22:12 And then the next thing also,
22:15 we found out that there is 50 villages around the BiYoTa,
22:19 and many of them never even heard the name of Jesus.
22:22 And so then we really wanted to come.
22:26 And then the best thing,
22:31 (laughing) the third thing that happened,
22:34 that showed us it was God's will,
22:35 is he felt God calling him to come and work with us.
22:38 So we really needed him,
22:40 to help us with the culture and of course in talking,
22:43 and so many things, so many things.
22:46 So it's really important to know,
22:49 it's God's way of whatever you're doing,
22:51 you really must know, and must plead with God and find out.
22:55 Because otherwise, when trials come which they came,
22:57 so many better things and agony of things,
23:01 then you can go through that holding God's hand
23:04 because you know, he called you to do it.
23:06 So otherwise you would give up and go home.
23:10 - You've told us about some of the struggles,
23:12 and some of the hard things that you've gone through.
23:15 Why do you stay here?
23:16 - Well, what makes us to stay is the great need.
23:20 Because we see these people,
23:22 they are so steeped in tradition, and superstition and fear
23:28 and there's really hard to teach,
23:30 they're very slow to learn.
23:31 In six years, we had baptized two people.
23:34 And a few people are now you know...
23:37 many people know about God they didn't know before.
23:40 And so you never know, we pray with a lot of the patients,
23:43 most of the patients and so they know about God.
23:46 But the great need here, is what keeps us here.
23:50 Because we wanna see as many people in heaven
23:54 as it is possible for us to reach
23:56 and that God has planned for us to reach.
23:59 - What advice you guys give to us
24:02 people that may be interested
24:03 in becoming missionaries one day?
24:05 - It will change your life forever.
24:08 And if you don't resist it, and then you turn away again,
24:12 to the world, it can grow stronger and stronger in you.
24:15 And I would advise, don't get hung up on so much schooling.
24:20 So many people say that,
24:22 "Oh, I can do this after I get this degree.
24:25 "And then I think I need my BS degree in nursing,
24:27 "in case I come back to America,
24:28 "then I'm gonna need to get a job
24:31 "and I can earn my money that way."
24:33 And then they think, "Oh, then I need something, you know,
24:35 "for medicine to learn and this and that."
24:38 And so they don't come.
24:40 And they never come
24:41 because then they never think they know enough
24:44 and the years slip by, and we are in the end times.
24:47 And Jesus is coming soon and I feel such an urgency
24:51 to spread the Word of God in these areas,
24:54 that there's a mountain up the mountain,
24:56 a village after village and nobody knows.
24:59 You know, you can put your finger on any mountain
25:01 and the people don't know.
25:02 And it's a real urgency and I Mrs. White says,
25:06 "The time is short."
25:07 And so many people get caught up with so many things
25:11 that while people are perishing,
25:13 for one of light and knowledge.
25:16 And so I think if the people sense,
25:19 the urgency that there is and that we were created
25:23 to help and work for others, wherever God puts us.
25:26 They might be in a foreign field where it's hard to work,
25:29 it might be in the city, it might be anywhere
25:31 but we were made to work for God and we are not happy,
25:35 a bit happy unless we are you working for God,
25:38 that that's our first priority is God and his work,
25:42 and everything else comes under that.
25:44 And then there's such joy and if you see somebody
25:49 that you kept the devil strings off, or you save a life,
25:53 or you give Bible studies in different villages
25:56 and you see the people trying to pray
25:58 or they come to the clinic
25:59 and they ask you to pray for them,
26:01 you are so happy you never could understand that kind of joy
26:09 unless you got involved and did it.
26:11 But it means sacrifice,
26:12 you have to be willing to give up everything.
26:14 It's take all my time, take all my money, take all my family
26:18 and you'll cry, things get hard
26:21 but it's really the only way we're gonna save our own selves
26:26 but all the ones around us.
26:28 - Well thank you so much for sharing being here
26:30 and watching you guys go into the villages.
26:33 It's really inspired us
26:34 and we really enjoyed our time here with you guys.
26:37 - We have enjoyed too.
26:39 (gentle music)
26:52 - Auntie Gayle is so cool.
26:55 - Yeah, and she has such a big heart
26:56 and she cares so much for these people.
26:59 - And in return for service,
27:00 they open up to her and trust her,
27:02 which allows her to be able to share the Gospel.
27:04 - Yeah, a lot of times
27:06 when someone goes to share the Gospel with someone else,
27:08 they get so eager about sharing the message
27:11 that they forget to give the person's physical needs.
27:13 If someone was starving, you can't just go up to them
27:16 and offer to pray for them.
27:17 First you need to give them food
27:19 and then they will be more open
27:20 to letting you pray with them and hearing the Gospel.
27:23 Ellen Might in her book "The Ministry of Healing" says,
27:26 "Christ method alone will give true success
27:29 "in reaching the people.
27:30 "The Savior mingled with men as one who desired their good.
27:33 "He showed his sympathy for them, minister to their needs
27:36 "and won their confidence, then He bade them follow me."
27:40 - This is something important for us to remember
27:43 as we set out to bring the Good News to the world.
27:46 - We'll see you next time on Mission Trek.
27:48 And remember to pray for the unreached.
27:50 (soft music).


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